It becomes part of the Earth’s natural carbon cycle, eventually escaping back into the atmosphere when the trees die before eventually being reabsorbed again by some other natural landscape.

Continuous tobacco monocropping has caused soil degradation and yield reduction in China. Intercropping, as a specific and efficient cropping pattern, is highly associated with the enhancement of soil ...

and medicine now and in the future without neglecting the importance of other types of trees with high potential, such as daun jarak (jatropha curcas) and kayu putih (melaleuca Cajuputi). (ANTARA FOTO ...

What is the plan to stop deforestation? Forests absorb vast amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) - a major contributor to global warming - so cutting down trees can have a big impact on climate change.

We have covered already what jatropha is: a promising crop which can be cultivated on barren land that does not compete with food production and from which you can obtain oil (with a quality ...

The government is looking into diverting money from diesel subsidies into four biodiesel production plants and possibly making biodiesel from the seed of the jatropha tree. Oil from the seeds was ...